All the workers of the Party’s centre and I myself knew
Suren Spandaryan in 1908 and 1909. He was a very
valuable and prominent worker. Stasova and possibly the
Caucasians (perhaps Yenukidze as well) should know him.
Suren’s father was receiving our help in Paris in 1910 and
1911 at Suren’s
request.[1]

2) make inquiries from Stasova and Yenukidze and others
who had known Suren and his father (if the Secretariat
should recognise the additional inquiry to be necessary);
inquire about dispatch to Tiflis;

3) authoriseBagotsky (Red Cross?) in Switzerland or
Klyshko in London to write to Suren’s father and give him
monetary help by reason of his being the father of a
prominent
revolutionary.[3]

Notes

[2]A letter from Spandar Spandaryan, the father of Suren
Spandaryan, written in Armenian. Spandaryan asked Lenin and Kamenev
to give him material assistance and help him return home from
Paris. Spandaryan’s request was also set out in a covering letter
from B. Mirimanyan, on which Lenin wrote the document here
published.